IBM hasjust announced TheInformix Warehouse featurewhichconsists of a powerful set of tools to build a warehouse infrastructureplatform. Here is a quote from the announcement:

From KevinBrown, lead architect for IBM and Jim Kobielus from Forrester Research:

"This can save weeks of effort into just a fewhours," Brown said. "Inaddition, customers often did without information because of the cost of effortto get the information. The lost opportunity cost savings is harder toquantify, but can be significant once they use their warehouse platform forsmarter decision-making."